Alberta Oil C-Suite Energy Executive Awards

Oil prices continued to seesaw in 2012, while the lingering effects of a so-called natural gas supply revolution kept prices for the cleaner-burning fossil fuel depressed, savaging shareholders and hastening asset sales.

Nowhere was the pain felt more acutely than in small- and mid-cap equity stocks. Peyto Exploration & Development Corp., led by chief executive Darren Gee, stands out as a company that steered straight through the volatility.

Gee, who leads Alberta Oil’s fourth annual C-Suite Energy Executive Awards as a top-performing chief executive officer, takes acclaim in stride, which makes good sense.
He is not paid to tout shares or sell theories, after all. And in this, Alberta Oil finds cause for recognition. The C-Suite winners are more than a jumble of executives chosen based on quarterly financial earnings.

Alberta Oil bases its views instead on an array of sources, from corporate disclosures to regulatory cases and travel to industry operating sites.

Above all, the following pages reveal there is far more to leadership than what’s reflected in any stock price.